Apparatus for making glass bottles and the like.



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'PATLNTLD MAL. 1'3, 1906. A.l PHILIPPOTLAUX.

-, APPARATUS fon MAKING GLASS BOTTLES ANDJATHE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 1B. 1903.

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APPLIOA-TION FILED HAY 13. 1903.

lUNITED STATES.

.PATENT OFFICE.

.l ALBERT PjHlLlPPOTEAUX,l OFHRHEIMS, FRANCE. jA|=fPAiA1`us Fotilvl/mame. lc-iLAssBoTTLEs AND THE LIKE.

` ITo ,all 'tall/0171,` it 'may concern:

TEAX,. of No. 6- Rue ldes Poissonniers,

" RheinisjMarne, lin the Republic of France,

have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Apparatus for Making Glass 1 Bottles andthe Llke; and l do' hereby de-- c la're the following -to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which ltapy'fpertains to 'make-and use the same.

` This invention relates to a .machine intend- 4 ed"or themanufactureof'glass bottles and 2'5 parts being still in the iirstposition. Fig. 4

fmachinebeing supposed to 'be removed and 1f'Sectiohof-.a1detaih on anenlarged scale, ofthe thelikez Figure '1. is an 'elevation oft'he whole apparams, showing the parts in theposition which l they occupy at the moment when the glass is `poured'into the upper m`o`ld,a portion of the fshown in Fig. 20.' Fig. 2 is a'corresponding f' side view,"the up er vmold removed in Fig.` 20 t being shown in p ace. Fig. 3 isa artial hori- .zontal seetiononthe line AIB o Fig. 2, the

'1s-a section on the line C 1U `E F of Fig. 2; Fig. 5,' a}'partialverticaly section on the line G `H ofFig'. 1; Fig. 6, a lateral'elevatio'n of the-u per'moldbrought into the 'second posiL tion or=taking-the :unnished-glass body(i brought:` into the' thii'dvposition'lt 'worked llFigfissa?partiallplan view of the that is to say; inthe position which it occu- Ivpies toenableftheiunnished glassbo'd-y to be takenby the lower mold; 1 .Fig'.` 10 is .ak vertical principalmember of the. device for retaining and conveying thezuniinished glass body, if; Fi s; 1 1, 12,; and. l13` represent, respectively,

. 1.tively av fronty elevation and plan view of `the y ,uppermoldolened. Figs. 16 and 17 are respectively 3a. ateral elevation and a sectionalA elevation- .of .the same .mold closed.

Figs'l 6a' andjl 7? are detail views ofthe mold. Figs; 18v and 19 are respectively an elevation and plan, lview yof .the wheel 7` serving for .,rnleking the mechanismA for conveying the un .finished glassbody int-ol the iirst position f and i Specicationof Letters Patent, i,

` .Miplcation `filed May 18, 1903. Serial No. '7,622-

The inventionfis shown intdetail in the' acl .companying drawings, i'n Which-'- a ongitudinal section, an elevation", and' a- .'plafn view, ofa modification xof the arrange-4 lrrie'nt.A Figs. 14 ,and 15 represent, respec- Patented March 13,1906.

the lever 83 `serving to produce at"will the elongation of"tl1eneck of the bottle. Fig, 20 is a view of the block removed from Fig. 1.

' y The frame of themachine is composed of a column (1,mounted on a bed-plate b, three regulating pins or screws c serving for -leveling this rame by means of a s irit or water level d, fiXed'on the bed-plate A' tubularv may turn, said platform carrying the apparatus for conveying and working the glass body. This platform' is supported on a collar la, formed by an enlargementor shoulder on g.

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A socket or bush m, Figs. 2, 3, 5, 14, and y 16, sliding inthe column g and the position.

of which is adapted to be regulated by stopscrews n, forms a support by means of two projecting brackets fortwovertical pivots o, on which two arms p and gturn like the two arms of a hinge.

are fixed', the capacity of said mold being such as to receive'the quantity of glass neces# sar for the formation ofthe bottle and said mo d having various characteristics. Its in'A ternal walls terminate at the lower part in two? half-annular recesses, which when the 'mold is closed fit exactly over a ring 12, Fig.

17 of the device forl retaining the unfinished glass b0dy. They fastening of the mold for holding it in the closed position is done automaticall by means of handles c 'on each of the two alf-molds, which handles are caused to approach to one another. On one of the two molds there is for this object a latch a: pivote'd on the rod of one of the handles v, themovements of said-latch bein limited by two studs/g and Lz, projecting rom the same face of the mold. The other half-mold rhas aproje'ction w, whichma also be formed by the rod of the corresponding handle and ori-Which the beak 'of the latch slides in order to automatically engage therewith. In order to open the' mold, it suffices to slightly raise the end of the beak of the latch. The opening of the mold thus unbolted is there done automatically under the action of .springs 80, wound 'round the spindles o and 'having vtheir extremities fixed, respectively,

At the upper end of these arms the two halves r and s 'of the upper mold IOO IIO

on the arms p and g and on the brackets for supporting the spindles o. This retu rn device may be replaced by a counterweight suspended on a chain and running over two pule s. ceives glass metal collected by the blowpipe only whenit has been brought into 'operative relation with the device for retaining the collar and conveying the glass body, and this member is shown on an enlarged scale in Fig. 10. It completes the upper mold when it is brought for this purpose into a vertical position with the ring 12 on the top, Fig. 1.

yThe device for conveying and retaining is constituted by a frame 2, provided with trunnions 3 and 4, resting on two bearings 5 and 6, fixed on the part Z of the frame. On one of these trunnions 3, which is prolonged, a fiy-wheel 7 is keyed, while two stops 8 and 9, fixed on this iiy-whe'el, Figs. 18 and 19, serve to maintain the whole in position by striking above and beneath the part l of the frame Jr-namely, the one 8 serving to maintain the frame in the vertical position necessary for fitting the two half-collars of the upper mold on the ring 12 and the other in a reverse vertical position, so tli'at the glass body may be blown in the final mold. In the axis of the part 2 a holQw shaft 10 is located, terminatedat one 4of its ends b a socket 11. On this shaft 10 a pinion 14 is keyed, which pinion gears with a pinion 15, keyed in turn on a shaft 16, passing through the trunnion 4. A. crank 17, operating a pinion 82', enables a pinion 81, keyed on the shaft 16to be revolved, and thus by the intermediate wheels 15 and 14 to cause the shaft 10 to,revolve in theframe 2 whatever may be the position of the latter. e

In the center of the socket or bush 11 a neck-mold or collar 12 is arranged for receiving the quantity of glass necessary yfor making the neck of the bottle, said neck-mold being able to be changed at will, according to the kind of bottle to be inade.

,A mandrel 18,. bored with a passage and connected at its lower part at 19 with a blowing means, Fig. 1, may slide freely in the shaft 10. The end of this mandrel enters the neck of the mold 12, and when the glass is poured into the mold the mandrel must be raised a certain distance, as indicated in Fig. 17, in order to form the mouth and al portion of the internal part of the neck of the bottle. Further, by thus pressing into the full mold it presses the glass strongly against the walls of said neck-mold, and thus molds perfectly the external face of this part of tlie bottle. For this object the mandrel is connected with a lever 20, Figs. 1 and 2, pivoted at 21 on the part 2, a rod 22, guided in the part 2 and provided at its ends with studs 28 and 24 and connected with the lever 20, enabling tlie mandrel 18 to be projected and theii-to be returned to its initial position.

The upperl mold thus constructed re-l The socket 11 carries the pprts s erving for retaining the glass and for t s object penetrates into ,the neck-mold 12, said parts being of two kinds working) differently according to the nature of the ottles.` In the example shown in Figs. 11, 12, and 13 the socket or bush 11 has at its front face four grooves 24, serving as slides for four square slide-pieces 25; but the number of these grooves, and consequently that of these slidepieces, may be varied. They are each provided at their upper inner part with a point 26 of conical form, engaging in a corres onding cavity formed in the neck mo d '12. When these points pass in their entering movement the internal circumference of the neck-mold,'they embed themselves 1n the pasty glass. Each slide-piece has 1n its center a screw 27, the head of which engages 1n a slot 28of a washer 29, and said washer in turning pushes-the four slide-pieces toward the center of the neck-mold, thus causing the for points 26 to project. The mandrel 18 carries a screw 30, the head of which engages in a'projection formed in a part 32, terminated at its extremity in a tapered part 33, Fig. 11, resting in a slot 34 of the Washer 29,

with the object of actuating this washer.l

The mandrel in entering this-device causes it to operate andin withdrawing returns it to its initial position, thus releasing the points 26.

In the modification shown in Fig. 10 the socket 11 has onits front face two dovetail notches 35, and in these notches are two slidefaces 36, onwliich two points 37 are screwed, the said points entering the neck-mold 12. An oblique notch 38 runs through `these pieces, and two pushers 39,1ocated in the thick part of the socket 11 on the hollow shaft 10, in entering andretiring from the notch 38 cause these slides to move, while the movement is limited by the pieces of these pushers. These pushers are terminated at their lower end by an eyelet 40. In these eyelets two nipples 41, screwed on the mandrel, engage, the pushers being carried alongr n tlie movement of the mandrel when the latter is set in motion.

The hollow shaft 10 has a device for retain- -ing and conveying the glass body and must be able to rise and descend at will to the extent necessary for releasing the part of the bottle engaged in the neck-mold and eventually elongating the neck. The inode of its actuation will vary according as the means shown in Figs. 11, 12, and 13 or the one shown in Fig. 12 be employed. In the firt case it is actuated by means of a fork engaging the neck 42. l

In the drawings of the whole apparatus the application of the forni to Fig. 10`s s liown. In this case tlie operation is effected by a ring 52, surrounding the shaft 10, and maintained by a second ring 43, fixed on said shaft. The

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ring 52 has a rack 53, with which the'teeth of a pmionn54, keyed on a trunmon-shaft 3, engage.. A lever\ 83, Figs1, 18, and 19, keyed on the other extremity of this shaft, enables tobe obtained. v I Y On the part 2 two arms 56 are plvfoted at 5 5, Figs. 2, 6, 7, 9, and 20,I between wluch the desired movement of the hollowshaft arms a block 57, serving for working the glass,

is bolted, thc internal walls of-this'block terminating in a half-neck intended fit exactly over the mold 12 of lthe conveying. and I etaining device and the edges of which form a slight rojection, Fig. 8 molding the Ilower part ci) the neck ot'A thefbottle;1.-This block may be pivoted to'separate and to approach at will in order to'give passage sometimes to the upper mold, sometimes tothe 4liinal mold.

A leverl 58,fpivoted 'at 50l on 'theframe l2, may

engage, by means of a notch 5 1'7on a cross-,bar l 49,-for the tiltingof the .block 57 'audits malnf tenance'inthe position of-Figs. 6 and 7. In

the reversal of' theconveyingf-and retaining arrangement the lever 58 lstrikes lthe frame a of the machine, Fig. 9, and operates automatically the disengagement and conse'- quently the effacement ofthe block. y

-is employed when working The platform Z' of the frame, Fig. 3, is formed* of two lsymmetrical parts, one-of which supports, as has just been explained, all the special means for conveying and retaining the unfinished glass body. T he symmetrical part may carry Van absolutely identical arrangement, the use of which 1s indicated in dotted lines, thus enabling one or 'other'of these two devices to 'be employed slide two arms 60, forming the' upper part of the.- table 84.

the mold, travel, while asocket 63in which the bottom 'of themold 61 i`s"pl'aced, is carried at the center of the table. In the axis of this bottom 61 a spindle-62,

gages. The arms 60 each carry externally lugs serving to support a pivot 6510i a rod 66, connected by itsl other extremity to one of the two arms of a lever 67, pivoting at 68 on a lug'screwed to the lower and lateral` part of The end of the other arm of this lever isperforated with several holes for the suspension of a counterweight 69, and a neeted to the lower end of each vof these leversf6'7 by rods 86, the arms 66 being caused to approach one another by pressing on said 'y A lever 71 is ypivo'ted at 72 the glass body the latch thetwo" tained by the mold 12 and the 'pintsZ "Thv` rmianls" 't volved, which, owing t intended to form the hollow bottom of the bottle,'fenv` bring the e to the frame ja, is con` vcome useless,

.its own wei pedal; ,While ifv the Pial barelesadthe een? lseparate au toinatically' the counterweightsQ.

. oil ai dem?, ixedto the table84, and its'end engages' 1n in the bottom 6 1 of; th., mldf'tliefsaid lever terminating in` a handle'75'aiid `s`ervmgjfor raisingor lowering the'bottom ofthefmold in order to sustain, theV glass body .A lever-77', forming thepedal and nd ofwhich 'causes a spindle 62intendedftoindent Athe hollow bottom of the bottle,.is, p1v oted on a bracket 76, carried bya cheelxxfixed on the-socket b, a catch formed by a. screw 7 9, carried by asupport `78, iixedfto Vthesocliet b, enabling the movement of this leverto be regulated at will. 4

`The `process..oimaking a..bot tle with the machinehereinb efore .describ ed'isgasiollows `The upper mold being .open, the llywfheefl, 7 is arranged in such a way that-itsstop;8,bears ment the part I2, which previouslywasvinthe. position shownin Fig. 2; and, bymeahs, of a cross-bar 19, engaged .the notch `87' oftlrelever 58,'is placed vertically.l Thehalf-mlds .r and s, which constitute .they p ermoldcovered by lthe-mold 12, are caused? toap-pro'aclr to one another, and the completeifcavity of the mold' intended to receifv the is thus constituted -byr-the lparts r'andf Walls of the mold 12, andthe surfacef'ofvthe. upper part of the mandrel' 1-8. "When the'glasfs; has thus been collectedand limited within-the the mold, themandrel 18-is pushedih,F-ig. "17j, thus -molding the'fglass" against 'the walls of the mold, and then by the aid of'theblowing means is expanded or blown: "-Th'e' an aperture 74, formed in th'effsocketland molterr'gl'ass l I IOO upper mold is theno 'enedby sim -l'y raising alf-'molds se automatically, and'theg-la's's bodyissim 'lyfreblock 57 'is caused to advance b' the lever`58, Fig."6, then abouta ,"ua'rt'e revolution is given to thefly-whee '7;jFig`f18, and` the whole block andframe 2 is` 'r6 ght kinto a h orizontalposition, Figs. any .'V" By means of the crank '17' theshaft `io ,wel

, 10' the-tmate 'ies w'it'hit tlieUlass body. 2Tl1e la'ttei"thei ore turns .in tl'feblock? and is elongated "i by means-effraie blowing-. devis-@2511162 sary form' is f given to The'` werk, block being terminatedaiiotlier darter-revolution is terweight, U

1sl thus freely suspended, held by glass body given to the ly-whee 7, so as to the mold 12 and the points 26, and then the bottom of the mold 61, raised by means of the lever 71', sustains the glass body during its elongation. When the bottom 61 of the .moldis returned to its initial osition located inwthe ,socket 63 of the tabe 84, the giass -bodyds of the desired dimensions. By pressings/ith one foot on the pedal 70 the arms oni-the mold are .approached to en e another, and thus the glass body is imprlsoned Vin the final mold. The crank 17 is then hollow shaft lO'is again raised by means of the lever 83, thus releasing the upper part of the bottle, which may thenA be removed completelyfinished. By giving to the fly-wheel 7 a reverse movement t'o the one hereinbefore mentioned thewhole device is returned.

to its initial-position,"and then" making the part Z revolve on theaxis g the device for conveying and synnnetrically retaining the 4glass body is brought back into the position or'working, these parts having had time to 'lose a portion of their heat. A; fresh operation may then be commenced'. l

I declare that'what I claim is-' 1. A machine -for manufacturing glass bottles comprising a supporting-column, revoluble glass supporting and'blowing means carried thereby,` a two-part preliminary mold vertically arranged and adapted to receive the molten glass and coperate with said supporting and blowing means, a final mold, and means for-swinging or rotating the supporting-machine with the partially-formed bottle carried thereby to bring it into operative relation to the final mold, substantially as described. y

' 2. A machine for manufacturing glass bottles, comprising a supporting-column, a twopart separable vertically-disposed preliminarymold carried by said column, a revoluble frame supported from said standard and havmg means for coperating with` the ,mouth of thepreliminarymold to form'the bottle-neck,

neck-engaging devices included in saidmeans, means for swinging the revoluble frame after the preliminary mold has been opened to reverse the bottle and a working block or mold adjustable about its axis for further operating upon the bottle7 substantially as described. i

3. In a machine of the charaeterdescribed, a frame 2, a hollow shaft 10 supported thereby, a mold at one end thereof for forming the neck of the bottle, gripping devices in said mold for retaining the glass, a mandrel 18 for compressing and blowing the glass `guided by said hollow shaft, and a block I57 pivoted to the frame for working the glass.

4, In combination, a telescopmg standard,

brackets carried thereby, vert1cally-disposed,

rods journaled in said brackets having outwardly-inclined arms p and q, means tending normally to separate said arms, ahalf-1n'old carried by each arm, and latclrmeans carried by the half-molds for holding them together, substantially as described.

5. In a bottle-forming machine, means for partially blowing the bottle 'in an inverted position, means for swinging and rotating it into any desired position, a working device, means or permitting said working device to move in a half-circle so that it may work upon the bottle while held in any position, and a final mold for completing the bottle while in an upright position, substantially as dcscribed. i i l 6. In a bottleforming machine, a final mold, comprising a supporting member 84, a

`bottom supportingmold or device carried thereby having a central passage, a bottomforming spindle working therein, and sideshaping parts 60 removably carried by the member 84, substantiallyas described.

7. In a device of ,the class described a neckmold in one piece havingprongs for holding and releasing thebottle', substantially as described. f

8. In a device of the' class described a neck-` mold having prongs for holding and releasing the bottle and a reciprocating shaft for operating the neck ,-,m'olid, substantially as described. y l

In witness whereof1 I`have hereunto set my hand in preseneegof two witnesses.

ALBERT PHILIPPOTEAUX. VVitnesseszl,"A t' i AUGusT "Dinan 

